engineering-loop SKILL.md skillA
engineering-loop from phelan164/codex-howto is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add phelan164/codex-howto/engineering-loop@git:20260929.8a9da83Pins git:20260929.8a9da83 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- phelan164/codex-howto
- Path
skills/engineering-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260929.8a9da83, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 4,746 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Implement a repository code or configuration change through reproduction, focused checks, review, and evidence. Use for end-to-end features and fixes; not for explanation-only, review-only, research, content publishing, or production operations.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Engineering Loop Deliver a verified change with minimal supervision and proportionate checking. Start with one agent. Delegate only when authorized and independent work or review coverage justifies the overhead. Follow applicable repository and team requirements; this skill adds no ticketing or mandatory-agent process. ## Establish the baseline 1. Read applicable `AGENTS.md` files and repository documentation. 2. Record the requested behavior, constraints, and observable done conditions. 3. Inspect the branch and working tree; preserve unrelated user-owned changes. 4. Before changing shared behavior, trace affected callers, consumers, and tests using targeted search or an available code graph. Expand along relevant paths. 5. Identify repository-native validation and run the smallest safe baseline that separates pre-existing failures from task regressions. Resolve routine choices from evidence. Ask only for missing authority or a material decision: ambiguous acceptance, incompatible public behavior, or destructive/data-changing side effects not already authorized. Continue independent authorized work while awaiting an answer. Load only the needed reference: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add phelan164/codex-howto/engineering-loop@sha256:ecd7dc058025aec7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.8a9da83, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rmiwezhtwf5vjbkx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260929.8a9da83 latest | 2026-09-29 | 8a9da83 | 4,746 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.dd80dad | 2026-09-15 | dd80dad | 4,801 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.fbac8f3 | 2026-09-08 | fbac8f3 | 4,607 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.052691c | 2026-08-05 | 052691c | 3,723 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260803.18a7956 | 2026-08-03 | 18a7956 | 3,416 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.42e092c | 2026-07-31 | 42e092c | 2,929 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4746 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
phelan164/codex-howto · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rmiwezhtwf5vjbkx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=phelan164/codex-howto/engineering-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ecd7dc058025aec7000b8219fa84c47223549c49c5bab420ddd8fed09a9e378a
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.